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I like big tattoos, I like small tattoos. Never mind the size, it’s all about the fitting. Like a ring or a suite, you know. Tattoos can, just by themselves, make you look like a walking god or a miserable creep. (Obviously, most won’t do either, but will just emprove or degrade your appearance a bit.)

Here is what I consider a good example of the former: Senta’s unique, microscopic but exquisite “clin d’oeuil” to Warhol.

The cover to the first SB book.
In collaboration with the Pavillion/Palais de Tokyo, Paris and swiss artist Emmanuelle Antille.
Out on the 26th of June! More about it in the “coming next” section.

Hehe
The book is almost finished!
350 pages, but it’s gonna look gooooood!
aaaargh

Here is a little preview:
Jean-Luc Verna photographed by Claude-Hubert Tatot

The young swiss award-winning artistic group Blakam Madame is known, among others, for their very personal appropriation of tattooing, which they practice more as a ritualized gesture than an aesthetic effort, like traces of a mysterious rite. Their tattoos often quote their paintings and installations which, subsequently, integrates and implies themselves—the bearers—as full-time parts of their art.

Blakam also run an art space in Lausanne: Bellevaux

Here, some random little videos made during a tattooing session. Note the videos are no way part of their work, just a vague and informal documentation.

blakam 1

blakam 2

blakam 3

Sang Bleu was invited by Blanco in Reggio Emilia (Italy) to be part of the exhibition “DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M SAYING, SIR?” . Viewing from the 1st to the 6th of May 2008
Grazie mille to the Studio Blanco team, for being so nice, and living in such a lovely town. Wish I could have stayed a few more sunny days in Reggio Emilia!

Lukas Wassmann [http://www.lukaswassmann.com/]

Sara from Blanco [http://www.studioblanco.it/]

Mathias Sterner [http://www.mathiassterner.com/] [http://tredadlar.com/]

Tony Cederteg [http://www.cederteg.blogspot.com/]

‘In addition to prolific stints as an illustrator and tattoo artist, native New Yorker Ruth Marten has been exhibiting her art in galleries for decades. For her latest body of work Marten’s embellished recombinants of 17th and 18th century engravings seamlessly weave radical alterations, subtle visual humour and ecstatic fantasy into delirious social landscapes.’

26th April – 6th June, 2008

Isis Gallery
20 Hanway St
London W1T 1UG

ruthmarten.com

embroidery floss on stuffed cotton, art & photos by Benji Whalen.
see the exhibition at the MAD, NYC
visit his website